Family Law Articles

K. Dean Kantaras has been publishing articles for the past 13 years with Tampa Bay Magazine. Follow the links below to read a selection of his articles on marital and family law.

• Family Law Articles
• Videos

A. General

1. The Layer-Client Privileges
2. The Lawyer-Client Relationship
3. Trials, Hearings, and Depositions Are Not Open to Everyone
4. Family Law: Changes Have a Significant Impact
5. The Costs of a Divorce Can Survive a Death

B. Divorce

1. Marriage and Divorce: Stormy Seas and Hurricanes
2. There is No Divorce Without a Marriage
3. Divorce and Cyberspace
4. Divorce and the Anger Factor
5. Divorce and Your Personal Life: It's Public Domain
6. No Fault Divorce: Don't Change It
7. Divorce and the Elderly
8. Religion and Divorce: A Second Separation of Church and State
9. Divorce Military Style

C. Agreements

1. Keep Your Word: A Court May Insist You Do
2. Premarital Agreements: Their Future in Florida
3. Settlement Agreements
4. Be Wise: The "Whys" of Prenuptial Agreements

D. Property /Equitable Distribution

1. Equitable Distribution: What's Not Included
2. Property Division: As the Law Changes
3. Determining How to Divide Marital Assets
4. Special Equity: What Does it Mean and How is it Calculated?
5. Florida is Not a Community Property State
6. You Think That's Your Property—Maybe Not
7. Valuations in Divorce Litigation
8. Yours, Mine & Ours: Not the Kids – the Property!
9. Real Property in a Divorce

E. Alimony & Child Support

1. Permanent Alimony: Is It a Vanishing Right?
2. Child Support: Private Schooling Can Depend on Income
3. The Law Catches Up
4. Child Support is Based on Income
5. Alimony and Child Support: How Much Do I Have to Pay?
6. Alimony: a Fact of Life
7. Child Support: It Could Be a Lifetime Obligation
8. Enforcement of Child Support and Alimony
9. Alimony: Health and Other Factors
10. Alimony: It Can be Modified
11. Retirement and Its Effect on Alimony
12. A Change in the Law of Alimony by Foreign Judgments
13. Alimony and Child Support
14. Permanent Alimony

F. Time-Sharing & Parenting (Custody)

1. Custody: A Child is at Stake
2. Custody: A Constant Sociological Struggle
3. Changes in Custody Law: Intended to Benefit Children
4. Consider the Children First
5. Concern Yourself With Your Children's Welfare
6. Parental Responsibility: Sole or Shared?
7. Extended Family and Custody
8. Custody Modification Made Easier
9. Custody Evaluations
10. Parental Coordinators: a Hope for Children
11. Lost Visitation Can Be Regained
12. Child Emergencies in Family Law

G. Relocation

1. What Do You Mean I Can't Move!
2. A Judge's Perspective on "Removal"

H. Expert Witnesses

1. Expert Witnesses May Evaluate You
2. Divorce and the Expert Witness

I. Paternity

1. Fatherhood: How it is Determined
2. Paternity in Florida
3. Paternity and rights to Timesharing

J. Mediation

1. Any Case Can Be Settled: The Lawyer's Role in Mediation
2. Mediation in Family Law Matters

K. Special Issues

1. Judge Shopping
2. Contempt: a Powerful Tool
3. Immigration and Divorce
4. A Major Dilemma: Adoption and Marriage
5. The Times They are A-Changin'

L. Appeals

1. Appeals Are Difficult to Win

Helpful Legal Links

• The Florida Bar
• The American Bar Association
• Supreme Court
• Florida Department of Children & Families

Local Courts

• Pinellas/Pasco Counties – Sixth Judicial Circuit – Clerk of the Circuit Court
• Hillsborough County - Thirteenth Judicial Circuit - Clerk of the Circuit Court
• Hernando County – Fifth Judicial Circuit